Rajib Saha, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and a group of Nebraska researchers are working to understand how plants produce their own means of defending themselves against pathogens, predators and the environment and hope to use that information to develop more vigorous food crops.
Saha is a co-principal investigator on the project, “Dissecting the Sphingolipid Metabolic and Regulatory Network,” funded by a three-year National Science Foundation grant. Edgar Cahoon, professor of biochemistry, is the principal investigator.
https://engineering.unl.edu/rajib-saha-unl-team-working-understand-plant-defenses-help-create-more-vigorous-crops/
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The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering will host a reception today (Oct. 30) during the 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The reception will be from 7:30-10 p.m. in Room 318 of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center at 206 Federal Street in Pittsburgh. Alumni, colleagues, friends, future faculty and prospective graduate students are invited to attend the Nebraska reception, meet faculty and graduate students from Nebraska and learn about the research that is being conducted in the department. No registration is required, but attendees will be asked to sign in at the door. Food and drinks will be provided. For more information, contact Rajib Saha (rsaha2@unl.edu), Srivatsan Kidambi (skidambi2@unl.edu) or Aaron Howell (ahowell3@unl.edu).